Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 2Robert Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... less harshly of Patterson than some others seem to . . . . Applying the principle to your case , my idea is that Halleck shall menace Columbus and " down river " generally , while you menace Bowling Green and East Tennessee . If the ...
... less harshly of Patterson than some others seem to . . . . Applying the principle to your case , my idea is that Halleck shall menace Columbus and " down river " generally , while you menace Bowling Green and East Tennessee . If the ...
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... less valuable in this : that it would break no great line of the enemy's communica- tions , while mine would ? Fifth . In case of disaster , would not a retreat be more difficult by your pian than mine ? McClellan claimed to have ...
... less valuable in this : that it would break no great line of the enemy's communica- tions , while mine would ? Fifth . In case of disaster , would not a retreat be more difficult by your pian than mine ? McClellan claimed to have ...
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... less surprise next day , when the de- stroyer , steaming out of Elizabeth River again to finish with the Minnesota , was met and boldly engaged by a strange little craft , with hardly anything visible above water save a round turret ...
... less surprise next day , when the de- stroyer , steaming out of Elizabeth River again to finish with the Minnesota , was met and boldly engaged by a strange little craft , with hardly anything visible above water save a round turret ...
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... ( less than 20,000 " present for duty " ) , and of this number it was proposed that 4,000 be sent to Manassas Junction . This was decidedly less than his corps commanders had lately estimated to be necessary , as reported by himself ...
... ( less than 20,000 " present for duty " ) , and of this number it was proposed that 4,000 be sent to Manassas Junction . This was decidedly less than his corps commanders had lately estimated to be necessary , as reported by himself ...
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... less than twenty thou- sand unorganized men , without a single field battery , were all you designed to be left for the defense of Washington and Manassas Junction . . . . My explicit order that Wash- ington should , by the judgment of ...
... less than twenty thou- sand unorganized men , without a single field battery , were all you designed to be left for the defense of Washington and Manassas Junction . . . . My explicit order that Wash- ington should , by the judgment of ...
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